I believe the most important thing we can do right now is create the strategy that many people have been talking about at this committee. That strategy is so important.
I've spent the last 35-plus years visiting ports in Canada and around the world, from both a seagoing perspective and a shore management perspective, and I've spent seven-plus years in a Canadian port authority. We have a saying, and Mr. Paquin will probably know it: If you've seen one port, you've seen one port. That couldn't be more true. Every port is unique, and that is a fundamental element.
If we start looking at infrastructure projects with that uniqueness in mind, yes, they have to be looked at through that lens, because everything needs to be considered in that uniqueness context. However, if we're only looking at them that way and not from a broader national strategy perspective, we get to the scenario where maybe we've over-invested in one area and underinvested in another, or certain corridors are heavily weighted on one commodity versus another.
That goes back to Mr. Guy's point about corridor strategies. From our perspective at the Shipping Federation, the development of a national strategy would be mission number one. Once you have that, you can start looking at individual projects with the uniqueness of the ports in mind and then start allocating funds in alignment with the national strategy.